Presenters: Drs. Paula Winke and Emily Heidrich In this workshop, we will review current theoretical issues in language placement testing that affect all placement testing programs at Michigan State University and beyond. The most import[...]

Join CAL, CeLTA Staff, and the CeLTA Director Search Committee for a research talk by Dr. Alejandro Cuza-Blanco, Professor of Spanish and Linguistics, Director of Linguistics, and Director of the Heritage Language Program in the Department[...]

Join CAL, CeLTA Staff, and the CeLTA Director Search Committee for a research talk by Dr. Alejandro Cuza-Blanco, Professor of Spanish and Linguistics, Director of Linguistics, and Director of the Heritage Language Program in the[...]

Presenters: Jeff Maloney and Dan Isbell MSU offers Qualtrics as a service for faculty and graduate students. With this software you can create surveys for a wide range of purposes, especially research. We will discuss[...]

Presenter: Dr. Shannon Spasova In this session, participants will learn how to create a speaking assignment or assessment using H5P. H5P allows the combination of several activity types to create prompts that include audio, image,[...]

Presenter: Kristen Mapes In this workshop, we will discuss where you already have an online presence, where you may want to develop a digital identity, and how to do it. We will think through what[...]

Presenters: Drs. Lynn Wolff and Matthew Handelman In this workshop, we will present a major component of our newly revised third-year German language and culture course that was piloted during the fall 2017 semester: Our work[...]

The Big Lebowski (Joel and Ethan Coen, 1998) Presented by Justus Nieland Jeff Bridges plays Jeff Lebowski who insists on being called “the Dude,” a laid-back, easygoing burnout who happens to have the same name as[...]

Presenter: Sheng Zhang This presentation will touch on effective, research-based methodologies of providing feedback in ESL and world language classrooms. Following this, some online tools that are helpful to provide effective feedback will be introduced[...]

Now Available! The next edition of Teaching with Tech arrived on March 1. Go to Teaching with Tech 2017 And view our annual collections here: Teaching with Tech 2016 Teaching with Tech 2015 Teaching with Tech[...]

Presenters: Madeline Shellgren This workshop focuses on various notions of accessibility. We will start with questioning who students are and why that is important to consider. Together, we will also explore ways to make space[...]

Digital Scholarship Lab (2nd floor of the west wing in the MSU Main Library)

Presenter: Dr. Anne Violin-Wigent As part of my current investigation on the effectiveness of explicit instruction, this project investigates the evolution of the accuracy of French liaisons produced by students over a semester. Do they actually[...]

Presenter: Alissa Cohen This workshop will explore some of the challenges of promoting language study among American school children and look at the CeLTA Fellowship project I conducted this year to address some of these challenges.[...]

If a job’s worth doing, it’s worth doing twice: Doing replication research Join us for a workshop on replication research! Dr. Graeme Porte from the University of Granada will lead us through a workshop on[...]

Prior to James Naremore’s talk on March 28, there will be a screening of his 1990 film To Sleep With Anger. Vagabond Harry (Danny Glover) pays an unexpected visit to his old chum Gideon (Paul Butler), who accepts[...]

A film screening and discussion with Film Producer John Morrissey, who in addition to producing American History X is currently producing the documentary A Murder in Mansfield directed by legendary documentarian Barbara Kopple. Free and[...]

Presenter: Dr. Aline Godfroid In this presentation, I give an interim report on a research project designed to chart the English knowledge of English as a Second Language speakers studying at Michigan State University. The specific aims[...]

MSU students in Museum Studies and the Art History Student Association have been working since November to prepare the first exhibition in the new Broad Art Lab across the street from the Broad Art Museum.[...]

Presenter: Drs. Zarema Kumakhova and Shannon Spasova This presentation will show a project that aims to facilitate the use of authentic reading texts throughout the Russian language curriculum. In first- and second-year Russian, students will complete[...]

Students in Susan J. Bandes’ Curatorial Practices course at Michigan State University will be presenting In Our Nature: Dialogues Between Humans. This exhibition is collaboratively curated by the students and runs April 20, 2018 – May[...]

Presenter: Dmitrii Pastushenkov The purpose of this project was to develop teaching materials for online tutoring sessions using Zoom. The teaching materials include lesson plans, PowerPoint presentations, and recorded online sessions for IELTS Speaking Preparation, TOEFL[...]